My boyhood featured a wondrous fairytale, played out in the Magical Land of Oz. It came my way thanks to a cult movie, featuring Judy Garland and Toto, her faithful dog. It was immortalized by an ever rousing and inspiring song, "Somewhere over the Rainbow", which attuned one to the human quest for happiness. This was a quest that was eternal, never being squashed by the dramas and conspiracies of lived reality.
A close friend, now dead, alerted me to the value of fantasy, for it helps keep life's energies pumping. It would seem that in today's crazy world, fantasy is needed more than ever, as a tool in keeping the big vision for humanity alive.
As we look at our world, many struggle to make sense of it, while others thrive and prosper thanks to its perceived craziness or nonsense. What was thought to be "the bad, old days" is fastly becoming reality, while reality is being driven more and more by the hands of the few. In the midst of such rapid and unwanted change, the age old question arises - What is real? We ask this as reality is fastly passing us by.
The Velveteen Rabbbit had the answer. Real is when you have become ragged and messed up thanks to persevering the lived struggles of love. Very seldom do we need lectures about life and love. What we yearn for more is to be loved and to have our eyes opened to the wonder and awe of life, knowing that all is possible within a reality that can too easily fail and ravage us. .
Can we believe that love is real in today's world? Can we identify the wonder and awe in our everyday lives? If not, then there is something wrong with our world, something wrong with us, for the wonders of a boy can never be denied or doomed. .
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